SHORT FILMS

RUNGS IN A LADDER

Directed & Edited by Ian McFarlandPremiered on VICE / NOISEY"Rungs in a Ladder" is the latest short form documentary by production team McFarland and Pecci. A meditation on life, art and purpose, the film centers on Jacob Bannon, an accomplished visual artist and the front man of the metal/hardcore band Converge, which has been carving its own iconoclastic path through the extreme music landscape for over twenty years.

NEW AWAKENING

This upcoming documentary on Killswitch Engage follows the band as they record their new album and regroup with their old lead singer.

THE OUTLAW

Directed, Shot & Edited by Ian McFarland

Premiered on VICE

Professional MMA fighter Dan Hardy is 'The Outlaw.' He lives the life of
a fighter and stands apart inside and outside the ring. He gets paid to
beat people up and loves every minute of it -- yet Hardy finds himself
at a crossroads.

CONTROLLED BY RHYTHM

Directed by: Mike Pecci

Premiered at the Boston Underground Film Festival

Horn is a man obsessed by his love for sound and music. Playing as a
drummer in five indie-rock bands (including Walter Sickert and the Army
of Broken Toys), TJ lives life in constant rhythm and deals with the fact that
his art may end up destroying what he loves most.

THE PROBLEM SOLVER

Directed & Edited by: Ian McFarland

Premiered on The UFC / VICE's - FIGHTLAND

UFC lightweight Joe Lauzon is a killer in the Octagon, though you’d
never think it if you met him. Quiet and thoughtful, Lauzon takes us on a
nighttime running tour of his native Boston while opening up about his
love of fighting and his need to compete. Part of the McFarland & Pecci created series on FIGHTLAND called "Speaking Portraits."

THE SQUID KING

Directed by: Mike Pecci

Ben Templesmith is best known for co-creating the comic book series '30 Days of Night' and his obsession with zombies, vampires, half naked women and squid. Check out this clip from the upcoming film.

BOXED LYNCH

Directed by: Mike Pecci

Premiered on JUXTAPOZ and DRAWN.COM

Dave Lynch has been drawing since he was a child and recently he set out
to fill a blank sketch book with over 400 cartoons. This little
mini-doc gives us an insight into the man behind the sketches, his work,
and what some might call his therapy.

CALLING MY CHILDREN

Directed by: David Binder

Shot by: Mike Pecci

This acclaimed documentary film tells the story of Gail Farrow, a
27-year-old mother of four sons, who was living with and
died of AIDS in 1989 and her family & children in the years after her
death.

PUSH: MADISON VS MADISON

Madison Park Vocational, Roxbury, Massachusetts. A rag-tag but talented high school hoops team tries to hold itself together. Graced with a handful of sharp shooters and savvy ball-handlers, they also struggle, both on and off the court, in a deteriorating public school system and the turbulence of life in the Boston inner city: rival gangs, a chilling murder rate, destructive families, and the struggle to stay in school and on the team.

MESHUGGAH ALIVE

Directed, Shot & Edited by Ian McFarland

'Alive' is a concert film by Swedish extreme metal band Meshuggah. The
film was released as a double album through Nuclear Blast on February 5,
2010 in Europe and February 9, 2010 in North America.

MIKE PECCI'S GRINDHOUSE SHORTS

Directed by: Mike Pecci

This collection of violent and over the top Grindhouse films feature Suicide Girls, chainsaws, and David Lynch style horror.

"I
kind of feel like somebody else might have felt a long time ago when
they were shown My Best Friend’s Birthday – the little known movie that
Tarantino made before he went on to unleash Reservoir Dogs. The feeling
pretty much comes down to something like ‘I’m in the presence of
something special here, something on the edge of breaking through…'" – Skin Deep Magazine

ROOTERS

Directed by: Ian McFarland

"Rooters; The Birth Of Red Sox Nation" Feature Documentary Film was in a
number of festivals, was broadcast 20+ times on The New England Sports
Network and has received a number of awards.
New England/Boston Emmy Nomination 2008
The Woods Hole Film Festival (Official Selection) 2008
Award For Baseball Excellence.

EGGS & BATIN'

Directed by: Mike Pecci

Written by and Starring: Tony Fernandez

PREMIERED at THE GAS COMEDY NIGHT

Tony finds out about some unpleasant news during breakfast in this short, improvised comedy sketch.

FLIGHT

Directed by: Mike Pecci

Premiered at ROME INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

Winner of BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM

This narrative adrenaline filled short follows a desperate man's race to catch his wife.

BEATBOXER

Directed by: McFarland & Pecci

Nate Ball has a constant drive to move - a drive he lets out through beatboxing.

THE SUBWAY STALKER

Directed by: Mike Pecci

Premiered at TROMADANCE FILM FESTIVAL

This twisted tale of love blurs the lines of narrative and documentary story telling.